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Britain. Football transfers. Reassuringly expensive. The financial gulf between English clubs and the rest of Europe is growing. FOOTBALL’S transfer window may almost be viewed as a sport in its...

英国 足球转会 天价 英国足球俱乐部与欧洲其他俱乐部财力差距正在拉大。 球员转会窗口的竞争都可以当作一项运动了。欧洲各俱乐部在每年的一月和夏季的两个月疯狂的买卖球员。当转会窗口关闭后，这次关闭是在9月2号，球队就定型了，只能等下...

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Books and Arts; London fiction. The best of cities, the worst of cities. The capital as inspiration for novelists. London is a “great cesspool” into which the loungers and idlers of life irresist...

文艺 伦敦小说 这是最好的城市 也是最坏的城市 首都伦敦 小说家灵感之源 亚瑟·柯南道尔在一集福尔摩斯故事中写道，伦敦是个“污水坑”，不可避免地集聚了游手好闲，无所事事的懒汉。但伦敦也是块相当肥沃的垃圾场，每一代小说家，每...

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Science and technology. Astronomy. Psst. Want a space telescope? America's spies make a generous donation to NASA. AMERICA'S civilian space programme is built atop its military one. Its rockets ...

科技 天文学 喂，要太空望远镜吗？ 美国间谍机构对NASA慷慨捐赠 美国的民用空间计划建立在军用基础之上，比如运载火箭，由携带核弹头并瞄准前苏联的弹道导弹发展而来，再往前可以追溯到二战时用于轰炸伦敦和安特卫普的德国V2系列...

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Small wonder, then, that music firms are scrambling to cut costs. EMI is in fairly good shape after being put on a diet by Terra Firma, the private-equity firm that owned it before Citigroup. Still, U...

有少部分人怀疑，也就是说，目前的音乐唱片公司都在努力缩减开支。花旗集团接手之前的百代，经过私募股权投资公司—泰丰资本的操刀调整之后，处于一个比较良好的状态。而现在，环球公司即将收购的却是百代最容易受到科技侵扰的唱片事业部。花旗集团单独将百代...

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Business. The music business. Universal's gamble. A musical merger could create a new model, or a dozy mammoth. A WISE gamble involves knowing when to hold, when to fold and when to run, croons ...

商业 唱片业 环球公司的赌博游戏 唱片行业的并购案可能会催生一种新的商业模式，抑或是一个行动迟缓的"庞然大物" 肯尼·罗杰斯在通过百代旗下的国会唱片公司发行的一首歌中，这样低声吟唱道："聪明的牌手知道何时叫牌，他懂得扣牌的...

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Business. Women in management. A word from your sponsor. Time for women to stop being shrinking violets at work. "I DON'T know any successful women who haven't had a powerful sponsor in their orga...

商业 女性管理者 后台一句话的事 职场女性 从此不再畏首畏尾 "在一个组织里，对于女性而言，没有过硬的后台帮助她们完成人生的首次突破，还能够风生水起的，我实在是没见过，"阿维娃·维滕贝格-考克斯，性别顾问公司20-First总裁...

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Transatlantic espionage. The lives of others. European governments should not kick up a fuss about American spying. They have too much to lose. NOBODY likes to be spied on, especially by their al...

横跨大西洋的谍战 窃听风暴 欧洲国家政府不应为了“棱镜”门而大吵大闹。因为他们将损失惨重 没人喜欢被监控，更不要说被自己的盟友监控了。所以，当欧洲国家发现，美国人在对他们实施监控、还是在自己的地盘上时，会火冒三丈就不足为奇了。美国不...

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Books and Arts; Book Review; New fiction; Rings of truth. Gold. By Chris Cleave. Novels about sport are notoriously hard to pull off. It seems somewhat odd for a literary mind to care how often a...

文艺 书评 新小说 真实的故事 《赤子之心》 克瑞斯·克里夫着 写一部关于体育运动的小说，显然是有难度的。让文学去关注一粒球怎样入网，冲刺终点需要多长时间，看起来多少有点奇怪。然而，事实也不尽然。古典文学所追求的叙述方式往...